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Monday review - the hot 22 stories of the week
Here you go. All the stories we wrote in the past seven days, in case you missed anything (or just want to read them again).
FLAMING RETORT: Cooling the friction when Linux meets anti-virus
Welcome to the first installment of a brand new Naked Security column, Flaming Retort!
This week, Sophos Voice of Reason Paul Ducklin soothes the friction which seems to warm things up whenever Linux meets anti-virus.
Sophos wins VB100 award for Ubuntu
The latest edition of Virus Bulletin magazine has just announced its results from its Linux comparative tests. Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux passed with flying colours, and easily earned its VB100 this month.
Sophos awarded VB100 for Windows Server 2003 protection
Those charming people at Virus Bulletin magazine have published their latest edition, hot on the heels of their successful conference in Vancouver. Of particular interest to us are the results of Virus Bulletin's most recent comparative test of anti-malware products. Read more…
Sophos Endpoint 9.5 wins VB100 award for Windows Vista protection
The folks at Virus Bulletin magazine have just published their latest edition, including details of their most recent comparative test of anti-malware products. Virus Bulletin tested an astonishing 54 products from different vendors, examining their ability to detect 100% of Read more…
Sophos wins VB100 for Windows Server 2008 protection
The hot news that has arrived in my inbox is that the latest edition of Virus Bulletin magazine has been published, and it includes some good news for users protected by Sophos's anti-virus solutions. The June 2010 edition of Virus Read more…
Anti-virus products compared in proactive test
Yesterday I told you about the latest comparative test of anti-malware products published by the folks at Virus Bulletin. As The Register reports, 20 out of the 60 security products tested by the independent testing body failed to receive the Read more…
VB100 win for Sophos in Virus Bulletin's largest ever comparative review
The April edition of Virus Bulletin has just been published, including the largest ever comparative review in the magazine's 21 year history. A total of 60 anti-virus products running on the Windows XP platform were put to the test, producing Read more…
Sophos wins VB100 award for SUSE Linux protection
The latest edition of Virus Bulletin magazine has tested a slew of Linux anti-virus products. Symantec and McAfee were amongst the security vendors who opted not to participate in the test, leaving some nine products in the running. Just as Read more…
Comparative test of anti-virus products on Windows 7
The latest edition of Virus Bulletin magazine has described its recently published investigation of 43 anti-virus products on the Windows 7 platform their "biggest month of testing ever", producing an exhaustive 27 page report examining the detection abilities of different Read more…
Sophos wins VB100 award for Windows Vista protection
The folks at Virus Bulletin magazine have published their latest edition, including details of their most recent comparative test of anti-malware products. Virus Bulletin tested 35 products from different vendors, examining their ability to detect 100% of the in-the-wild viruses Read more…
Sophos wins VB100 award for virus protection
The folks at Virus Bulletin magazine have published their latest edition, including details of their most recent comparative test of anti-malware products. Virus Bulletin tested 22 products from different vendors, examining their ability to detect 100% of the in-the-wild viruses Read more…
Sophos wins VB100 award
Those charming folks at Virus Bulletin magazine (well, we think they're charming when they give us nice reviews) have just published details of their latest comparative test. Virus Bulletin tested 39 products from 34 different vendors, examining their ability to Read more…
Sophos's reactive and proactive detection tested, wins VB100 award
The chaps at Virus Bulletin magazine have just published details of their latest comparative test. Okay, lets get the basic stuff out of the way first. The test was on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 platform and Sophos successfully Read more…


















